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• Reading List: January.

  Non-Fiction: Lamya H: Hijab Blues. Gilbert King: Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. Fiction: Tana... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 29/1/24

  

  Politics: It feels like the Republican Primary at this stage is a foregone conclusion. After the Iowa caucus, in which Donald Trump managed to get ahead of Ron... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Kaibutsu / Monster

  

  My first encounter with a film by director Kore-eda Hirokazu was at the 2004 Viennale Film Festival, at a screening of Dare mo Shiranai / Nobody Knows. Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  

  Sleater-Kinney - Hell (on Little Rope) I pull myself in piecesPull myself apartIt's like looking in a mirrorWith a stranger looking back(Untidy Creature / Say I... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Scavengers Reign

  

  The last few years have provided us with a wealth of fictional and reality television survival narratives. Most recently, it felt like the more cooped up with... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: December.

  Non-Fiction: Amy Key: Arrangements in Blue. Notes on Loving and Living Alone. Joanna Biggs: A Life of One's Own. Nine Women Writers Begin Again. Casey Parks:... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Music of the Year

  

  Albums:Black Belt Eagle Scout / The Land, The Water, The SkyCable Ties / All Her PlansBody Type / Expired CandyVagabon / Sorry I Haven't CalledJoanne Robertson ... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Shows of the Year

  Best new show:DeadlochThe Last of UsAs someone who watches a lot of television, my favourite moments are always the ones where connections seem to unfold betwee... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Films of the Year

  Blue Jean (2022, Georgia Oakley)Showing Up (2022, Kelly Reichardt)Women Talking (2022, Sarah Polley)Natten har øjne (2022, Gabriel Bier Gislason)Tytöt tytöt... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - You Can't Wish Them Away.

  

  pretty girls make graves | pictures of a night scene. the kills | new york. jessy lanza | midnight ontario. sampha | dancing circles. the mountain goats | groun... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black: Echoes - The Best Thing That We Can Do is Just Let Go.

  

  Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x10 We Will Come Again.I’ll be okay. Oh Jules! The conclusion of the first season of Orphan Black: Echoes, which has not even aired yet i... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Royal Hotel

  

  Kitty Green’s The Assistant threw Julia Garner’s character into a film production company in which a man, never fully seen, had free reign to abuse women, with... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: November.

  Non-Fiction: Gershom Gorenberg: The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977.Samuel Moyn: Not Enough. Human Rights in an Unequal... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black: Echoes – I Finally Feel Like I Belong Somewhere.

  

  Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x09 Attracting Awful Things.Who am I? Who are we?I like how Echoes, although shaky at times in terms of general consistency, has... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black: Echoes - You Don’t Know Who You Are.

  

  Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x08 The Paradox of Joyce.I think a lot of this season of Echoes comes back to choices and responsibilities, especially what it means to... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black: Echoes - You Have Always Been So Afraid of Losing Things.

  

  Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x07 The Dog's Honest Truth.Eleanor: You have always been so afraid of losing things. Of losing people. That’s what makes life life. That’... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black - I Made You, and I’m Responsible for You.

  

  Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x06 Unless You Trusted Someone.It’s me. I changed. I think it’s very interesting how Echoes delineates the morals around printing... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Roter Himmel / Afire

  

  Leon (Thomas Schubert), a writer who found success with his first novel, travels to a holiday home near the Baltic Sea with his friend Felix (Langston Uibel)... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black: Echoes - I Lost Her, and Then I Lost My Way.

  

  Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x05 Do I Know You?I have to believe that a world with her in it, even if it’s complicated, is better than a world without her. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black: Echoes - Do You Think We’re Happy?

  

  Orphan Black: Echoes: 1x04 It's All Coming Back.First you should know, you were made out of love.The mystery is unravelling fast in Echoes’ fourth episode. Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2023 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO